LAWRENCE KANSAS RESIDENTS:
PLEASE BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR A MISSING “JEWEL”!

Below are e-mail excerpts received from a desperate cat
rescuer, being used with permission. It would have been easy and brief to just
list “missing cat”, but the urgency is best relayed in the original request for
help. Will you be able to look out for “Jewel”?

Jewel is a
dark grey and black tabby with no white on her. She's pretty lanky looking and
has this odd mix of short and long hair - we think she may be long-haired once
she gets nutrition in her. She's got black "eyeliner" around her eyes.
Unfortunately it's a pretty generic description. Her tail is narrow, but
long-haired and is mostly black and she has a lot of black on her forelegs.

I was wondering if I could trouble you for a prayer request.
My mother finds stray cats a lot where she lives. People seem to abandon them
regularly in that area and we try to take them in and find homes for them. She
found one recently that she worked with for months getting it to trust her and
we were finally able to take it in. It is the sweetest cat - loving and trusting
and gentle once it gets to know you. Both of us wanted to keep her, but we both
have a lot of pets already and so we found what we thought was a good home. But
when I called a couple of days later to find out how she was doing, the people
who took her told me that they'd lost her before they even got her in the door.
That was 5 days ago and my mother and I have been looking everywhere. I'm not
sure if her new family is looking or not as I can't get in touch with them. I
know she is afraid and lost and now it is getting cold and has been raining and
grey and she must be chilled and hungry.

We're from Lawrence, Kansas and she was lost near the downtown
area - 12th and Tennessee. We live across town near 25th and Iowa. She was lost
across town from where we found her originally, and is now in a busy downtown
district.

We have put up flyers but it's rained and I was going to put
up more this week/weekend and I will add your idea of a reward. Thank you. We do
have a Humane Society/Pound here and we've been checking with them regularly and
have an ad in the paper. We've gotten a lot of calls, but while we've searched
the areas people report seeing a cat that matches the description, we haven't
been able to actually see any of them yet since they come and go. There's a
parking lot someone said they see a cat in that may match her description - it
comes between midnight and 2 am, so I've been staking out the lot but haven't
seen it yet. It's really sad to get so many reports though because as they're
coming from a lot of different areas of town, I'm sure they can't all be our cat
unless she's supercat which means there are a lot of strays out there.

Could you include this cat in your prayers - that God will
protect her and keep her from fear and harm and lead her back to us or to
another person who will take care of her - and that somehow we'll know
that she is alright?

By the time you read this, “Jewel” will have been missing for
over one week. If you find her, please take her in and e-mail CLCt! using the
mailbox below with your name and location so the person writing will be able to
contact you directly.